Adjustable blower for stoves and fire-places



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J. L. GOBEILLE.

ADJUSTABLE BLOWER FOR STOVES AND FIRE PLACES. No. 350,194.

Patented Oct. 5, 1886.

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ADJUSTABLE BLOWER FOR STOVES AND FIRE PLACES. No. 350,194. I PatentedOct.- 5, 1886.

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JOSEPH LEON (lOBlQILL'l'l, OF CLEVELAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE GIRARD STOVE\VORKS, OF GIRARD, OHIO.

ADJUSTABLE BLOWER FOR STOVES AND FIRE-PLACES.

SPECIFZCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,19 dated October 5,1886. Application filed February 13, 1886. Serial No. 101,826. (Nomodel.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnri-r LEON GomnLLn, a citizen of the U nitcdStates, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Ouyahoga, State of Ohio,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Blowers forStoves and Fire-Places, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in adjustable blowers for stovesand fireplaces; and it consists in roviding means, hereinafterdescribed, by which the blower may be balanced and held at any desiredpoint of adj ustment; also, in providing means for uniting thecounter-weights, that uniformity of movement may be secured.

My invention also relates to the detail and combination of parts, as setforth in the claims.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings hereunto attached.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a. stove, showing my invention withthe blower A raised up and a section of the end plate, B, removed. Fig.2 is same view, disclosing the interior of the stove, and showing thefireplate L, segment M, and counter-balance N and plate 0. Fig. 3 is aview of an end section of the front plate, 0, showing the slot A. Fig. 4is a view of an end section of the blower A, showing the rack a. Fig. 5is same view as Fig. 4, showing the other end of blower with rack a.Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of the toothed segments M and M, thecounter balances N and N, and the connecting-bar l;

' Fig. 7, same as Fig. 3, showing the slot A in front plate, O.

In the construction of the stove the fire-grate and firebox are incasedby the vertical plates 0, B, and K, and the bottom plates, F and G, andtop plates, D and E, the end lining-plates, O O, and top fire-plate, L.

The blower A is provided at each of its ends with a toothed rack, 11 anda, which extends above and below the bottom of the blower. Said racks,having teeth I), are placedin the slots A and A of the front plate, 0,and in which they may be vibrated. The end lining-plates,

O O, are provided with outwardly-projecting pins f f, about which may beoscillated the segments M and M, which are made in pairs, and oneadapted to each end of the stove and provided with teeth 0, which engagewith the 5 teeth I) of the racks c (1.. attached, and is integraltherewith,the eounterbalance N, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. Saidcounter-balances N and N are connected by the bar 1, for the purpose ofsecuring a uniform movement of the segments M and M, by which the blowerA may be raised and lowered as may be desired, the counter-balances Nand N and the connecting-bar 1 being of such weight as may be necessaryto balance and to detain the blower at any desired point within therange of its described movement.

The blowerA is held in position by the vertical plate It, against whichrests the face or flanges h of the blower A.

The end lining-plates, O O, are novided with projecting pins 7.-7.",which arrest the upward and forward movement of the connter-balances N and N when the blower A has reached the limit of itsdownward movement. plates, 0 O, are also provided with a slot, 7)! m,semicircular in form, through which the bar 1 may pass.

The fire-plate L rests against the back plate, K, at a, and extendsforward and upward,and over and upward, and backward and downwar(l,onthe lines of curvature, or thercabont, as shown by the dotted lines, andthe removed section of plate L, to letter 1), (see Fig. 2,)th'e point ofjuncture with the back plate, K. The open ends of the above-describedlire-plate are adapted to the slots m m and to the end lint ing'plates,O O.

The manner ofjoining any or all ofthe plates used in the construction ofthe stove may be of any of the well-known and approved methods.

In forming the fire-plate L, as hereinbefore described, an open space,T, is provided between the upper section, r, and the lower section, 8,through which the bar 1? may pass in forming a connection between thecounterbalances N and. N, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5,. The back plate, K,is provided with a series of perforations, 2, between thcjunctionsformed with the plate K by the edges 01' the fire-plate L at n and 1),through which cold air may pass into the heating-chamber formed by thefire- To the hubs yg is The end 7 opening into the ash-box.

plate L and the back plate, K, in which chamber the air will becomeheated and flow through the apertures in the end lining-plates, O 0,into the flue U U, formed between and by the plates 13 and O, andoutthrongh the perforations to in the top plate, E. Cold air may alsoenter the fines U through the perforations o in the end plate, B, andout at the top, as before stated.

The shield H covers the grate and front of Thedoors x a; in. the basemay be of any of the well-known and approved forms, having slidingdampers z.

The blower A is provided at its lower edge with a projecting ledge, 0,adapted to cover an upwardly-projecting rib, 0. (See Fig. 1.)

The operation of the vertically-moving blower A is as follows: Theflanges h of the blower rest against the face of the front plate, 0. Theracks to a in the slots A A are held in position by the verticalcorner-plates R R, the teeth I) of the racks a a engaging with the teeth(I of the segments M M, which are sup ported on and may be oscillatedabout the projecting pins ff. The weight of the segments M M and the barP being equal to the weight of the blower A, the parts will balance overthe pinsff, or so nearly so thata very slight pressure on the blowerwill cause it to move in the desired up or down direction, and to remainat any point of elevation or depression between the limits of itsboundary.

Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a stove or fireplace, of a vertically-adjustableblower having toothed racks, counter weighted toothed segments engagingsaid toothed racks, and a bar connecting the weighted ends of the seg'ments, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, in a stove or fire-place, of a vertically-adjustableblower, A, having toothed racks a a, counter-weighted segments M M, endlining-plates, O 0', having projecting pins ff, on which the segmentsand counter-weights may be supported, and about which they may beoscillated, and the slots at for the passage of the connectingbar, andthe connecting-bar I, adapted to rigidly connect the counterweight M tothe weight M, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, in a stove, of the front plate, 0, having slots Aand A, a verticallyadjustable blower, A, provided with toothed racks aand a, adapted to and projecting through the said slots A and A thetoothed segments M. and M, engaging the toothed racks and provided withcounter-weights N and N, a connecting-bar, P, and an open way connectingthe flue U and U, through which the bar P may pass and be vibrated,substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day ofFebruary, A. D. 1886.

JOSEPH LEON GOBEILLE. Vii-messes:

BENJ. F. MiLEs, V. R. GAYLORD.

